It is increasingly clear that what sank the Republicans in the mid-term Congressional election was not so much President Bush’s conduct of the war in Iraq as his flagrant failure to recognize, and honestly seek to solve, our grave immigration problems. Bush was joined in his failure to secure our borders by Republican Senators McCain-AZ and Spector-PA, who, with most of their Republican colleagues, voted with Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy for the Senate’s “Comprehensive Immigration Control Act.” Fortunately, the House of Representatives had the good sense to refuse to vote on the offensive Bill. Read more…

Vincent Carroll is The Denver Post's editorial page editor. He has been writing commentary on politics and public policy in Colorado since 1982 and was originally with the Rocky Mountain News, where he was also editor of the editorial pages until that newspaper gave up the ghost in 2009.

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